Dean Stone obit

 Baseball Pitcher Dean Stone Has Died

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“Dean” Stone, 88, of Silvis, Illinois passed away Aug. 21, 2018 at Hope Creek Care Center in East Moline.

Funeral services will be 10am Saturday at Schroder Mortuary in Silvis. Visitation will be 4-7pm Friday at the mortuary. Burial will be at Greenview Memorial Gardens in East Moline. Memorials may be made to Christ United Methodist Church Family Life Center.

Dean was born Sept. 1, 1929 in Moline, IL the son of Lyle and Frances Goddard Stone. He married Peggy Scott Nov. 29, 1949 in Piggot, AR. She passed away June 30, 1985. Dean worked for Anchor Lumber building houses and Rock Island Lines in Silvis. He also owned a sod company. He was a major league pitcher for the Senators where he was the winning pitcher of the all-star game in 1954. He also pitched for the Red Sox, White Sox, Colt 45’s, St. Louis Cardinals and Orioles. He also played twice in South America and once in Japan.

Survivors include his daughter Mary Ann Quin of Silvis; grandchildren Greg (Mariah) Quin of Silvis, Jean (Brian) Linville of East Moline and Angelic (Todd Trettin) Quin of Graton, IA; great grandchildren Lucy, Melaney, Barrett and Macey Quin, Allison and Amanda Linville, Abigail Luke and Elizabeth and Kathryn Henning.

Dean was preceded in death by his parents; wife; son David Dean, infant son Paul Dean and brothers Hilbert, Lynn, Paul and Allen Stone.

Stone was a pitcher who appeared in 166 games over all or parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons. The well-traveled, 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), 205 lb (93 kg) left-hander played for the Washington Senators (1953–1957), Boston Red Sox (1957), St. Louis Cardinals (1959), Houston Colt .45s (1962), Chicago White Sox (1962) and Baltimore Orioles (1963). He also played one season in Japan for the Taiyo Whales (1964).

Born in Moline, Illinois, Stone graduated from United Township High School in East Moline, prior to entering baseball in 1949.

Stone was the winning pitcher of the 1954 All-Star Game without retiring a single batter. This took place at Cleveland Stadium on July 13. He entered the game with two out in the top of the 8th to face Duke Snider, with the American League behind, 9–8. Red Schoendienst, the baserunner on third, tried to steal home and Stone threw him out at the plate. The A.L. then scored three runs in the bottom of the 8th and won the game 11–9, as Virgil Trucks hurled a scoreless 9th inning to save it.

After having pitched two minor league no-hitters in 1952 and going 8–10 with a 3.33 ERA for the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association in 1953, he reached the big leagues. His first appearance was in relief against the Detroit Tigers on September 13, 1953. He would go on to pitch the majority of his games (60%) in relief at the major league level.

In 1954 won a career-high 12 games, lost 10, had an earned run average of 3.22, and it was his only season as an All-Star. In his other seven years, he had a combined record of 17–29 with a 4.91 ERA.

Stone was a member of the expansion Houston Colt .45s of 1962. He pitched a three-hit shutout against the Chicago Cubs in Houston's third game (April 12), then another shutout against the Cubs one week later, giving the Colts a 5–3 record. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Russ Kemmerer on June 22. The Baltimore Orioles acquired Stone during the off-season, and he made his last major league appearance on June 21, 1963.

Career totals include a record of 29–39 in 215 games pitched, 85 games started, 19 complete games, 5 shutouts, 52 games finished, 12 saves, and an ERA of 4.47. In 686 innings he struck out 380 and walked 373. He had a batting average of .088 in 170 at bats with one home run.

In the minors he played for the Chattanooga Lookouts, Clinton Steers, Charlotte Hornets, Orlando Senators, Charleston Marlins, Omaha Cardinals, San Juan Marlins, Minneapolis Millers. Erie Sailors, and the Indios de Oriente from Venezuela. 

Susan Brown obit

'General Hospital' actress Susan Brown reportedly dies at age 86

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Susan Brown, best known for her role as Dr. Gail Adamson Baldwin on the soap opera “General Hospital” has reportedly died at age 86.

The news comes from “General Hospital” executive producer Frank Valentini, who took to Twitter to give his condolences.

“It's a very sad day in Port Charles as the wonderful Susan Brown ("Gail Baldwin") passed away today,” he wrote. “My sincerest condolences to her family and to all who knew this amazing woman.”

Kin Shriner, known for playing Brown’s on-screen step son Scotty on “General Hospital” also used the social media platform to say goodbye to Brown, noting that she was one of his “best friends.”

“Sad to say one of my best friends and costars Susan brown passed away today she played Gail Baldwin @GeneralHospital my mother R.I.P. Susan I will miss all our laughs,” he tweeted.

“General Hospital” veteran Jackie Zeman responded to Kin’s tweet with her own condolences.

“Kin I am so sorry for your loss. I will miss Susan too. She was so very special, on set and in friendship. I remember all the good times we shared on our @GeneralHospital #GH lunch breaks at at her amazing dinner parties at her beautiful home. RIP Susan + God Bless,” she wrote.

Others connected to the show to share their sadness at Brown’s passing include Lynn Herring, Lisa Locicero, Kathleen Gati and Jon Lindstrom. All of whom were retweeted by the official General Hospital Twitter account.

Variety reports that Brown died after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Reps for ABC did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

Born in San Francisco, Brown graduated from the University of Southern California and began her TV career in 1959 on the soap “From These Roots.” She would later hold parts on “The Young Marrieds,” “Bright Promise” and “Return to Peyton Place.” She would join the cast as Dr. Baldwin in 1977 and remain with the show until 1985. However, she made brief reappearances on the soap, even returning in 1992. Her final appearance was on the show’s spinoff “Port Charles” in 2004. The role earned her a Daytime Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress two years into her run.

Carol Shelley obit

Carole Shelley, a Tony Winner and a Pigeon Sister, Dies at 79

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Carole Shelley, who played one of the bubbly Pigeon sisters in the stage, screen and television versions of Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple” and won a Tony Award in 1979 for portraying a woman who develops an emotional connection to the disfigured title character in “The Elephant Man,” died on Friday at her home in Manhattan. She was 79.

The cause was cancer, said a friend, the actor Barrie Kreinik.

Ms. Shelley, who was born in London and began her theater career there, strove to convey complexity, even in characters who might appear shallow.

“I play light comedy with the same intensity I’d give to Lady Macbeth,” she told The New York Times in 1979. “The energy is the same, the truth is the same.”

Ms. Shelley, who also originated the role of Madame Morrible in the long-running Broadway musical “Wicked,” first appeared on Broadway in 1965 in the original production of “The Odd Couple.” She played Gwendolyn Pigeon, one of two giggly, single English sisters who live upstairs from the apartment shared by the slovenly Oscar (played by Walter Matthau) and finicky Felix (Art Carney). Monica Evans played her sister, Cecily.

Ms. Shelley and Ms. Evans played the same parts in the 1968 film adaptation of “The Odd Couple,” with Jack Lemmon as Felix and Mr. Matthau as Oscar; and early episodes of the television version, which started in 1970 and starred Tony Randall as Felix and Jack Klugman as Oscar.

The Pigeon sisters (who share their given names with characters in the Oscar Wilde play “The Importance of Being Earnest”) inject a delightful kookiness into the slob-neatnik dynamic of Oscar and Felix. In the play, when Felix meets the sisters, he describes his occupation: “I write the news for CBS.” Gwendolyn asks innocently, “Where do you get your ideas from?”

After “The Odd Couple” ended its Broadway run in 1967, Ms. Shelley appeared on Broadway in comedies like Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absurd Person Singular” and the revue “Nöel Coward’s Sweet Potato.” But by the mid-1970s she wanted to test herself as a dramatic actor.

“I felt I was not being used fully,” she told The Times in 1979. “In fact, not only wasn’t I plumbing my own depths, I didn’t even know if I had any real depths to plumb.”

She played Rosalind in “As You Like It” and Regan in “King Lear” at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, an experience she called “months of the most intensive deep-water swimming — more than I’d ever been called upon to do in my life.”

“The clown was finally allowed to play Hamlet, so to speak,” she continued.

“The Elephant Man,” which opened on Broadway in 1979, gave Ms. Shelley her dramatic breakthrough, as Madge Kendal.

The play, by Bernard Pomerance — it was directed by Jack Hofsiss — tells the story of a severely disfigured man who is taken from a freak show to a hospital in Victorian London by a well-meaning doctor. It is based on the life of Joseph Merrick (though the character in the play is named John).

Mrs. Kendal, an actor, is hired by the doctor (played by Kevin Conway) to spend time with Merrick (Philip Anglim) after a nurse flees him and orderlies gawk at his appearance. At first she can barely stifle her disgust, but in time she recognizes Merrick’s humanity and develops an affection for him.

In one poignant moment she shakes Merrick’s hand, a movement Ms. Shelley said she ad-libbed; in another she strips to the waist before him, a scene of surprising intimacy.

Ms. Shelley said she adored the role.

“So much of what I’ve been working toward in the past few years — the effort to achieve stillness, spareness, clarity in my acting — seems to have come together in Mrs. Kendal,” she said.

The critic Richard Eder, writing in The Times, said of the performance, “She is strained, moved, tender and funny by turns; beating her way like a golden bird through Merrick’s deformities and into his feelings.”

Ms. Shelley’s performance won her the Tony for best leading actress in a play.

A new generation of theatergoers knew Ms. Shelley for originating a less sympathetic character in the musical “Wicked,” a prequel of sorts to L. Frank Baum’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.”

The show opened in 2003 with Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda, the putatively good witch, and Idina Menzel as Elphaba, who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West. (“Wicked” was still running on Broadway, with a different cast, when Ms. Shelley died.)

Ms. Shelley played Madame Morrible, a college official who pairs Glinda and Elphaba as roommates. She later helps arrange a series of events, including the killing of Elphaba’s sister, that push Elphaba toward wickedness.

Carole Augusta Shelley was born in London on Aug. 16, 1939. Her father, Curtis, was a German Jewish composer who immigrated to England before World War II. Her mother, Deborah (Bloomstein) Shelley, was an English opera singer of Russian Jewish heritage.

Carole acted as a child and dreamed of being a dancer. She studied ballet, but her dancing career ended when she was a teenager after she broke her foot.

She attended Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster), where she studied theater design and millinery. At 18 she began working in the London theater, appearing in several productions before being cast in “The Odd Couple.” She moved to New York City in 1964 to appear in that show and never again lived in London.

In 1967 she married Albert G. Woods, the maître d’hôtel at Jim Downey’s Steakhouse, an old theater-district haunt. They remained married until his death in 1971. She leaves no immediate survivors.

Ms. Shelley’s other Broadway credits included “The Norman Conquests” and “Billy Elliot: the Musical.” She had a well-reviewed turn opposite Nathan Lane in the touring production of another Neil Simon play, “Broadway Bound,” beginning in 1987.

In addition to “The Odd Couple,” she was seen on television in shows like “Frasier” and “The Cosby Show,” and in films. She voiced characters in the Disney animated movies “The Aristocats” (1970) and “Robin Hood” (1973), both of which also featured her “Odd Couple” compatriot, Ms. Evans.

 

Filmography 

Year , Title , Role , Notes  

1949, Give Us This Day, Bit part, Uncredited  

1949, The Cure for Love, ,  

1956, It's Great to Be Young, Peggy, The Angel Hill Kids,  

1961, Carry On Regardless, Helen Delling,  

1961, No, My Darling Daughter, First Typist,  

1963, The Cool Mikado, Mrs. Smith,  

1963, Carry on Cabby, Dumb Driver,  

1968, The Odd Couple, Gwendolyn,  

1968, The Boston Strangler, Dana Banks,  

1969, Some Kind of a Nut, Rita,  

1970, The Aristocats, Amelia Gabble, the goose, Voice  

1973, Robin Hood, Lady Kluck, the chicken, Voice  

1986, The Whoopee Boys, Henrietta Phelps,  

1991, Little Noises, Aunt Shirley,  

1991, The Super, Irene Kritski,  

1994, Quiz Show, Cornwall Aunt,  

1994, The Road to Wellville, Mrs. Hookstratten,  

1997, Jungle 2 Jungle, Fiona,  

1997, Hercules, Lachesis, Voice  

2000, Labor Pains, Madge,  

2005, Bewitched, Aunt Clara,  

2018, John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous at Radio City, Mystery Chaperone, final credit